Ramones Quotes
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Nobody picked up guns in those days. You put on music, and it made you feel great.
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I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.
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I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.
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Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.
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When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.
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No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.
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We always stayed true to what the Ramones are.
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It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.
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I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.
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I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.
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Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.
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The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.
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All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.
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The first record I bought may have been Del Shannon's 'Runaway.'
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I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.
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Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.
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Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.
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Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.
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Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.
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For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.
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When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.
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I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
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When Dee Dee would start singing, he would stop playing the guitar, because he couldn't sing and play at the same time.
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Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.